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- ShutDown
- A program to allow you to "ShutDown" RISC OS 2
-
- Version 1.00 (26 September 1993)
-
- by Gareth Boden
- © Copyright Gareth Boden 1993
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- CONDITIONS OF USE
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- This software may be freely copied provided all the following
- files are included unchanged in any way (including this file)
- and the copying is not done for a profit:
-
- !Help
- | |_________ !Run
- | |_________ !RunImage
- | |_________ !Sprites
- | |_________ !Sprites22
- | |_________ HelpText
- | |_________ Templates
- |
- ShutDown
-
- This program originally came from:
- HeadFirst Public Domain
- 45 Cedar Street
- SOUTHPORT
- PR8 6NQ
-
- For a full list of our programs, please send an SAE to the
- above address.
-
- If you are distributing ShutDown (ie you run a PD library,
- club/user group, magazine, or BBS) then you must contact me
- (send a disc of PD and an SAE) so that I can send you the most
- recent version. My address is at the end of this help file.
-
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- DISCLAIMER
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- In no circumstances shall the authors or HeadFirst PD be liable
- for any damage, loss of profits, time or data or any indirect
- or consequential loss arising out of the use of this software
- or inability to use this software, even if they have been
- advised of the possibility of such damages. This software is
- supplied "as is"; no warranty, express or implied, of the
- merchantability of this software or its fitness for any
- particular purpose is given.
-
- Having said that...
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- PROBLEMS
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- We always want to hear of any problems you may have with any of
- our software, so that we can correct it as soon as possible.
- Send full details of the problem, together with a disc
- containing the program and an SAE, to the above address.
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- CREDITS
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- This program was written by Gareth Boden, using an Acorn A4000
- with !StrongED2, !FormEd, !WimpKit, BASIC V, !BasCrunch and the
- RISC OS 3 PRMs. (I got them on 27/5/93 - can anyone beat
- this?). It is not guaranteed to work on anything else, but
- should do.
-
- The HelpView program was written by Graham Jones.
-
- The template definitions are based on (but not copied from)
- those in the RISC OS 3 ROM.
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- THE PROGRAM
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- This program was written so that RISC OS 2 and RISC OS 3
- computers could be shut down in the same way. This was needed
- because the computers were being used in a school and therefore
- the pupils could use a consistent method no matter which
- computer they used. This program emulates the ShutDown facility
- of RISC OS 3, and as such is of no use on computers fitted with
- RISC OS 3.
-
- The program provides an extra "hot key" for the desktop, namely
- Shift-Ctrl-F12. This causes all applications to be quit and the
- desktop to be cleared save for a small window allowing you to
- restart the computer. The ShutDown procedure also closes all
- open files and parks all hard discs.
-
- Any applications which have unsaved work (and conform to Acorn
- guidelines) when the ShutDown procedure is initiated will check
- with the user whether you want to save your work before
- shutting down.
-
- Always make sure you exit the desktop "cleanly" when switching
- off or before a Ctrl-Break ie by quitting all applications
- using either the menu option Quit or the desktop Exit or new
- Shutdown facilities. If you don't do this, then programs won't
- be able to save any changes you have made to your work. You
- should always exit "cleanly" to avoid accidentally wiping out
- unsaved work.
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- KNOWN BUGS
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- None, unless you know different! (Drop me a line if you do!)
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- HISTORY
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- A list of the different versions of ShutDown (in reverse
- chronological order):
-
- 1.00 - Original version. Written in BASIC V.
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- FUTURE IMPROVEMENTS
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- I may add further features to this program in the future. I am
- more likely to do this if you ask me to, so send your
- suggestions to me.
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- THE AUTHOR
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- Any comments ( good :-) or bad :-( ), bug reports, suggestions
- for improvement (surely not!), nice letters, offers of cash,
- gold bars, etc to:
-
- Gareth Boden
- 45 Cedar Street
- SOUTHPORT
- PR8 6NQ
-
- If you send me a disc of PD (or some cash) I will send you the
- latest versions of any software I have written (with a bit of
- PD to fill the disc).
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- BYEEE!
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- Well, that about wraps it up. The program was designed for a
- simple task and it does it adequately (I don't want to say
- "well").
-
- ShutDown will install happily on a hard disc, and uses very
- little memory (8k-32k), so it should work on any RISC OS
- machine.
-
- If you want to print out these instructions, they can be found
- in !Help.HelpText.
-
- Remember: Life is like a faulty disc drive - you frequently
- find yourself on the wrong track altogether.
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- ShutDown by Gareth Boden
- © Copyright Gareth Boden 1993
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